WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s desire to reallocate congressional seats among states by excluding undocumented non-citizens from census counts would probably increase representation in Republican strongholds like Ohio, at the expense of Democratic states like California, if it came to pass.

In Ohio’s case, the would regain a congressional seat it narrowly lost after the 2020 count, cleveland.com found in an analysis of state-by-state 2024 Census Bureau population estimates and Pew Research Center estimates of undocumented residents .

The analysis found that if the population projections held up in an actual census count -- one not counting undocumented immigrants -- Democrat-controlled California would lose three seats. New York, Rhode Island and Illinois, also run by Democrats,

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